Or so I say. I wish it'd be summer already. Where's that global warming, eh? We've only had one day so far that's been in the 70s...and it's been raining all week.

I hope you all will take a look see and my new photography print series. They're a little on the gooshy philisophical side, but I'd appreciate a comment or two to let me know what you think of them!



Work has been keeping me pretty busy, and every day after work I've been stopping by a gym for about forty minutes a day. My goal is to by this time next year have lost 40 pounds, then I will be my ideal weight. My goal and reason for finally excercising? Well, for one, health problems are creeping up. And for two, I'm at that prime time in my life when you start looking for prospective mates. I know I can never compete against pretty people, but I figure that if I'm more in shape I'll at least me be less unatractive.

Geez, the economy is hitting us all hard, especially us college kids. I'm finding myself so obsessed over saving money that the other day I even went online and did a search for every single one of my beanie babies to see if any of them were worth anything. Times are tough.

So, I'd really appreciate it if anyone buys a print of mine! I also have this one of the ninja I did for Hikari's grad party:



Hope your summers will keep you all busy. Sorry I'm falling behind on answering messages and such, I hope sometime I'll have time to catch up. Stay safe, and take time to watch those beautiful sunsets!

I know that's not how you spell "odyssey." Came across a video on youtube the other day. It was an AMV with Avatar the Last Airbender to a techno song called Odysee. Techno gives me a headache, but for some reason I fell in love with the lyrics. I suggest you listen to it to understand what I'm talking about, but I thought to share some of the lyrics with you.

The video: [link]

"This is my odysee
This is my illusion
I'm lost in a dream of you and me
So caught up in confusion
When will love be immortal
And truth be pure and free?
I was born to find the light
This is my odysee.

This is my odysee
This is my illusioni
I'm lost in a dream of you and me
So caught up in confusion
When will brothers stop the fight
When will our minds be free?
I was born to find the light
This is my odysee."


I know I've been posting a lot of photography lately, but once finals are over I hope I can show you some of the cute stuff I've been sketching around with lately.

Also, actual YouTube proof that I exist! I'm the one in the blue. [link]

OMGz! I found a pic of me on the net that I didn't know was there until today! Yayz! I'm in j00r cons bl4sting j00r phasers! [link]

Today was Scorchcon! For those of you not in the know Scorchcon is a mini con hosted on campus (we reserve the entire second floor of the Union) by the Anime, Gamers, Sci Fi, Fantasy, and...a couple of other clubs. I didn't think this one was nearly exciting as the last Con, but that may because the last one was my first and I was overwhelmed.

The theme for this con was "Are you tough enough?" So I dressed up as a yakuza thug. I wore my black boots with some nice black dress pants, then a light blue men's paisley dress shirt somewhat sloppily, with a black paisley neck tie halfways untied, and a leather jacket with the sleeves rolled up. I drew a dragon on my left arm and wrapped my right hand with a red paisley bandana. I then put a small bandaid on my chin and a piece of white tape under my eye, and put a bandana over my forehead and parted my hair to the side. Hopefully someone will post pictures on facebook for me to steal. It wasn't until a couple of hours into the day that due to someone's comment that I noticed how much paisley I was wearing. Well, yakuza do like to be stylish in a corny way. XD I also borrowed Anna's bro's black bokken, I was kick ass.

Then my friend Ashlee showed up dressed up like Light from Death Note (in all black). But when she pulled her hair back and put on a pin stripped hat she looked like a mafia boss, so we decided that she was my boss and I was her street urchin underling. We did a skit for the cosplay contest. I spilled the boss's pudding...and thus incurred her wrath.

In other news, for the second time in my life I tried guitar hero and was enjoying myself. People encouraged me to enter the tournament for later in the day so I did. My mistake was probably then standing in line a lot so I could practice as much as possible, so that by the time for the tournament came my hand was already tired. The first round I won by default because my opponent had to leave. The second round I lost, but was kicked down to the loser's bracket and got to play one more time. I lost all three times. But by that time my arm was just killing me. Just two inches below my right wrist my arm is swollen, red and inflamed. X0 I think I strummed too violently. It could be worse, I heard that in a later round Ahslee had to stop in the middle of the song because her hand hurt so much and then she went an got a brace for it. X0 Violent game, that Guitar Hero is.

And then in the silent auction because I had 40 bucks I bid on lots of things, I got a Gundam 00 wallscroll, a Neon Genisis Evangelion poster and magazine (why? I don't know! THey were shiny!) a Soujiro keychain (from Rurouni Kenshin) and two small mystery items for my friend's grad present (I don't want to mention them because I want it to be a surprise for her and she sometimes reads my DA...) all for 31.50! Yay! The Evangelion magazine is extremely disturbing...XP But I hope to read some of the Japanese.

Well, I'm going to go ice my arm. Tomorrow is a another day of meaningless adolescent existence! Yay!

Look! Actual YouTube proof that I exist! (I'm the one in blue) [link]

that is, in her opinion that art sucks, and in motive that I want to drown today away with sugar and caffeine I've picked up what she did in her journal:



NAME MEME

1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother & father's middle name)

Ann Oliver

(Wow...if that isn't a clash of middle names you wish to forever avoid with your own offspring...)

2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother's dad, father's dad)

Ralph Gary

(Once again...two names that shouldn't mix X0 How very middle working class american of my grandpas...)


3. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)

Wicre

(What am I...a basket? [wicre = wicker?])

4. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)

Blue Squirrel

5. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)

Erin Hutchinson

(Erin is a VERY soap opera name...XP)

6. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning)

The Green Tea! (LOL! ...creative...not)

7. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)

Rewi

(Sounds too much like a bird...)

8. GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)

Blackberry Sugar

(That's more hooka than gangsta)

9. ROCK STAR NAME: (current pets name, current street name)

Annie 122

(Sounds like a Disney TV show...)

10. STRIPPER NAME: (name of your fav perfume/cologne, fav candy)

Lavender Skittles

11. PORN NAME: (1st pet, street you grew up on)

Bluebell Crystal

(oh gawd...that one almost makes sense...X0 )


Now that you are traumatized I'm going to go drown my brain cells out with some more television until I pass out and finally go to sleep for a really really long time and not care cause I don't have any classes tomorrow.

In Fargo/Moorhead it's always windy. Somewhat poetic and melancholy, I know, but mostly true. Tomorrow it's supposed to storm, which has me nervous for my portfolio review tomorrow. Hopefully I can fit all my stuff in my art locker tonight, except for the poor ninja which does not fit. I'm really really nervous about this portfolio review thing, I just don't know what to expect, and right now I feel really insecure about people picking apart my art because right now I'm already losing faith in my art. I'm really discouraged, mainly from in class assignments. Just because I see things a little differently...

Anyways, I wanted to try to lighten things up a little so I'll tell you about some thing that has happened today. First I had to go buy a 36x40 piece of foam core and take it back to the dorm with me after drawing so I could finish matting my piece. It was quite an adventure because the wind is gusting up to about forty miles per hour today. Quite gusty, it's hard enough to walk, let alone carry a big flat thing in a plastic bag with no handle. What made this challenging was that I only had one hand free with which to hold unto the foam core. When the wind gusted too much and it started flying up I'd turn around so that the wind was blowing the board into my body instead of flying away. Later because I screwed up my cutting I had to run by another sheet of mat board about the same size, and it was even more challenging, even though I had both hands, because it was flexible.

It makes me want to fashion a pair of wings out of foam core and mat board and just fly away.